TeleSlim Clinic review

Nobody here will tell you what a quarter dose costs, and to be fair, TeleSlim never pretends otherwise: it says in plain words that the subscription does not cover the medication. That single sentence is the most important thing a service-fee model can disclose, and most of them bury it. What it leaves you with is a treatment cost you cannot estimate — the only figure offered is a range spanning two orders of magnitude, which is not a price so much as an admission. Credit it for naming its clinicians with credentials, naming its partner pharmacy with a street address, and refunding the subscription if insurance falls through and you walk away. Three things will cost you if you misread them. The initial visit is charged on top of the subscription. Two of its own pages disagree about the entry rate. And this is Illinois-centered care with five states added, not nationwide coverage.

Vs median

$76/mo below the $175 median across the 299 of 548 programs here that publish a plain monthly rate

Market

$59–$1,300/mo is the full published spread on this site

Structure

Standard plan, self-directed low dose

Consult

Included in the price

Dietitian

Not confirmed

Labs

Not required

Pricing

Check plan terms

TeleSlim Clinic names its pharmacy: Rush Pharmacy. No bloodwork is required before you start. A clinician review is included in the price.

TeleSlim Clinic is a physician-led telemedicine practice serving Illinois with additional coverage in Texas, Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona, and listed offices in Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Denver and Detroit. What it sells is the clinical relationship: subscription plans covering doctor visits, with the medication prescribed and paid for separately, either through insurance or out of pocket at the pharmacy. It names its partner pharmacy with a street address — Rush Pharmacy in Oviedo, Florida — and names its clinicians with credentials. Its educational material discusses FDA-approved brands rather than compounded product.

THE MEDICATION COST IS NOT PUBLISHED AT ALL, and the range offered instead spans two orders of magnitude — "$10 to $900 per month". What treatment costs here cannot be worked out in advance from anything on the site

• THE TWO PUBLISHED ENTRY PRICES DISAGREE. The home page sells a monthly plan at $99; the FAQ says plans start at $149 per month
• This is not a medication-inclusive provider and cannot be compared with one on price — the figures above buy doctor visits only
• An initial visit is charged on top of the subscription, at $199 discounted to $99
• A "Limited spots this week" interstitial runs site-wide, on every page
• Coverage is concentrated in Illinois with five other states added by telemedicine, rather than nationwide
• Whether compounded GLP-1s are offered at all, or only brand-name product billed through insurance, is not stated
• Compounded GLP-1s are not FDA-approved, and intentional microdosing is off-label and unproven

TeleSlim Clinic is one of 548 low-dose GLP-1 programs compared on this site, and 299 of them publish a monthly rate you can read before signing up. The full list puts every published price in one place, with the companies that pay us listed first — something we state there, on the page it applies to.

Intentional GLP-1 microdosing is off-label and unproven — no randomized trial has established that a sub-label dose does anything, and any dose belongs with a clinician who knows your history. If you are going to have that conversation, have it with real numbers.

• What the evidence actually shows
• What microdosing GLP-1 costs
• Low dose vs full dose
• What a flat price costs at a low dose
• The true annual cost of a plan